One Night

London Bound

Bray -"Wakey wakey new roommate! Our flight leaves in 4 hours! Hope you're all packed! I'll be there in 10! I'm so excited!!! Ahhh!!!"

I roll over and pull the covers over my head. I couldn't stop myself from smiling extra big today. I was finally moving to my favorite place in the world with my favorite person besides my brother! I sit up quick as I hear my door creak open. "Good morning sis, today's the big day! Are you excited?" I gave Tyler the look of death and simply replied "No. Why would I be excited about moving to London, my most favorite place in the world with my best friend?" He couldn't stop himself from busting out into laughter. I was definitely going to miss him. He sat on the bed next to me and pulled me into his side, giving me a kiss on the top of my head. "Im going to miss you lil sis." I wrapped my arms around him and smiled. "Im going to miss you too, Ty" he gives me one more squeeze before jumping off of the bed. He smiles down at me and simply holds out his hand for me. "What?" I look at his waiting hand and pull the covers off of me. "You think I'm going to send you off to London without feeding you my famous pancakes and amazing apple juice?" I grab his hand to help myself get off the bed. I don't know why my parents thought a queen size bed was the perfect bed for their little angel. I was small, a petite little person, some would say. I tried every morning not to break my ankle getting out of this damn thing! "The apple juice isnt yours, freak. I don't know why you try to lie to me about it. I found the empty bottles in the outside garbage, remember?" I giggle at the memory. Ty laughs and pushes me out of my room. "Whatever. You just won't admit I have the most amazing apple juice ever."I roll my eyes and just let him have it. I knew the truth, thats all that matters. I walk in behind Tyler and see the stack of pancakes waiting for us. "Tyler! These could feed the army and probably the navy seal also!" I laugh and sit down at the table, waiting for him to bring the plates over. "Oh shut up! I knew I would be feeding Bray also!" And right after the mention of her name, she walks through the front door. "I knew I smelt those famous pancakes from the hallway!" She smiled big at tyler and set her bag on the counter. Braylee, bray for short, has been my best friend since 3rds grade. She moved from Mississippi to LA because her father got a better job offer over here. She was so shy and wouldn't talk to anyone until I sat with her at lunch and shared my chicken nuggets with her. And I'm telling you, I am not one to share my nuggets! Ever since that day, we've been closer than ever! She practically lived at my house every summer. That is until we we're 17 and my parents got into a car accident. I only had my brother left and he was 23 at the time so all his partying ended quickly, taking in his little sister. Don't get me wrong, Ty had an amazing job working for our father. He was a head salesman in woman's fashion at the age of 21. He had everything he could ever want. A brand new house that sat on top of the hill, overlooking the lake. A 2013 white Cadillac with an amazing sound system. He had it all by 21. But now with my parents death, he is the proud owner of the business, 'Lainy's Look'. It was named after my mother who would do the fashion designs herself and just let my father have the rights to owning. Yes, we were a wealthy family but I don't like to label myself or my family like that. We were just a normal family with an extra amount of cash coming in that not every family could have. I hated having people know we were well over being financially stable. It made my skin crawl.

Bray sat down beside me and grabbed herself a plate. "Ugh! These pancakes are to die for! Ty, you have to give us your recipe before we leave!" I look at tyler and already know his answer. He laughs loudly and shakes his head, waving his fork around "why on earth would I do that? Then you guys would have no reason to come back and see me!" Braylee and I look at each other and laugh. "Tyler. Why would we ever do that. We love you too much to not come back!" She takes a sip of her coffee because 'apple juice gives you the runs' as Bray says. Her and her freaking coffee! We all eat and talk about the day ahead of us. To say Braylee and I were a little excited definitely didn't even fit the part. We were beyond excited! This was our dream since we were 10, in history class doing a report on our most interesting place we'd like to visit one day. Who knew we would visit our senior year and completely fall even more in love with it! While being there, we both managed to find a nice neighborhood to live in when we finally decided to leave LA! Here we are, 5 years later and we're moving into that neighborhood!

2 hours left

"Okay. You sure you have everything you need? I will send the rest over in 3 days. I just don't want you to suffer until then." Ty smiles big at me and puts his arm around my shoulder. We stand in the door way of my now old room. "I believe that's everything until you send the rest." I smile up at him and look at my 2 suitcases and carry on bag. This was it. I'm officially moving to London. I grab one of my suitcases and carry on bag while Ty grabs the other one. We make our way out into the living room where Braylee was waiting for us. She looked away from her phone and smiled big. "Okay. One more thing before we go!" She pushed us all in together and held her phone up. "Tyler you better take a decent picture since its our last one until next time!" He rolls his eyes and smiles big. At the last second me and Ty make a funny face, leaving bray smiling like an idiot. "YOU TWO ABSOLUTELY KILL ME!" She goes back to the picture and starts giggling. "I guess this will do since you guys hate me! I can never get both of you smiling!" We laugh in unison. Ty pulls both of us in a hug and squeezes us tight. "God Tyler if you squeeze any tighter we're going to pop!" Braylee barley breaths out. He let's go of us and looks down to us. "I can't believe my little sisters are leaving me." And at that bray starts tearing up. She always knew she was apart of our family so it shouldn't really be a tear jerker for her but that's just how she is. "We're going to miss you Ty! But we have to go! We have an hour and 45 minutes until we leave!" Braylee put her phone in her back pocket and grabs her bag off the counter. Tyler grabs my suitcases and follows us out of the house. Once everything was in Bray's white 2012 Range Rover, we all go in. Tyler driving, bray in the front and me in the back. Tyler was keeping her car until her father got back from Peru on business but her father made sure to show his apologies by not being here to see us off by buying us our plane tickets and first class seats to our new life in London!

Once we arrived and got everything out of the Range, we hugged tyler one last time. Ty grabbed me and hugged me once more before we started walking. "Remember if you dont like it, you always have a place here. With me." I smile up at him and give him another squeeze. "I know. But I'm 22. Its time to move on!" He laughs and let's me go. He waves to us and watches us go through security. Once we were through, we waved to him one last time and then he was gone. Our new life was just beginning and we couldn't wait!